Escape from the Madhouse [Unlimited]

above the tower.

After leaving the top floor, the player went down one floor at a time, and found that except for the cactus on the tenth floor, the ninth floor to the first floor were all empty, no one was seen, nor any equipment.

Then the last memory fragment might actually be at the bottom, where Situ Qing and Yin Jiujiu went.

When the four of them sat together in the elevator to the second floor, they communicated in their brains unconsciously.

Qi Liuxing: [Collect all four fragments, in fact, the task is considered complete, right?From this point of view, the main line is quite simple]

Ke Yuxiao: 【Actually, it's really not that simple. Listen to what Wu Ren said. Clearing stations that increase points can be 'destroyed'; but places that keep losing points will always exist.Behind this is actually the conspiracy of the dungeon designer]

Qi Liuxing: 【Well... I think I understand what you mean...】

Ke Yuxiao: [Once the life points are cleared, the player will die immediately, and at the same time, the points can be plundered.Under such a setting, the possibility of cooperation between the players will be very small, and they will always be wary and suspicious of each other in their hearts]

[With such vigilance and suspicion, after entering the high wall, when you find that the clearing station can be destroyed...Xiao Qi, what will you do in this situation? 】

Qi Liuxing: 【I will have two suspicions. First, players with high points have nothing to fear. In order to deal with players with low points, they may destroy the clearing station; second, the life points that the clearing station can provide to players are not endless Yes, there is likely to be an upper limit.So--

[Once I find the clearing station, I will of course recharge my life points first, the higher the better]

At this time, Wu Ren suddenly inserted a sentence in his mind: [Station A11 can no longer allow us to recharge, and there is indeed an upper limit to the life points that the clearing station can provide players.We only have one station A12 left to use]

Ke Yuxiao continued to think in his mind: [After entering this high wall, it is easy to find places that reduce life points, such as the black grass, which is different from the clearing station, these places cannot be destroyed]

[In other words, under normal circumstances, players will think that if they want to reduce points, they can reduce them at any time, and the task of collecting 24 points can be easily completed; but since the clearing station can be destroyed, the opportunity to increase life points may be missed once. no more.

[Therefore, as Xiao Qi said just now, when entering this dungeon, players will choose to recharge their life points to a fairly high number as much as possible, instead of exploring the dungeon first]

[But this is the deadliest wrong choice! 】

If the life points of the players are always maintained at a high level and cannot be lowered, they will never be able to mutate, they will not be able to achieve communion with plants, they will not be able to obtain any memory fragments, and they will not be able to find the secret hidden by Ryan.

Therefore, although the memory fragments are placed in an obvious place in the dungeon, waiting for everyone to touch and obtain them.

But it is extremely difficult for most players to achieve this task.

Then, without completing the main task, even if the 24 points are reached, the players will not be able to pass the level.

In addition, there is a limit to the number of life points that the evil spirit removal station can provide.

When the life points of the three clearing stations are exhausted, the players' life points can only continue to decrease, not increase.

In this case, they are likely to miss the critical value of "24".

For example, if there are seven players alive, and their life points are constantly decreasing, every 20 minutes, the seven people's points will decrease by as much as 7 points.

If their combined points drop directly from 30 to 23, this is a situation where "24" is skipped directly.

Until then, even if they start to mutate, discover the secret of the dungeon, and then find memory fragments...

They still can't get through-

The evil spirit station could not recharge the points, and other props that could increase the points were exhausted, and they could no longer get the "24" points together.

After figuring out all the problems, Qi Liuxing couldn't help feeling in his mind: [Sure enough, as Zhou Qian judged, game designers like to play tricks on people! 】

【Well... I understand.It is easy for us to collect fragments now, because after entering the dungeon, the life points have all become very low intentionally or unintentionally, so that they have all started to mutate... All this seems simple, but it is actually quite difficult to achieve]

[Speaking of which, thank you Zhu Qiang.He never expected that after the health value of each of us is forced to decrease, it will be easier for us to discover the mystery of the dungeon]

Wu Ren: [Hey, I suddenly realized that chatting like this is really effortless]

Qi Liuxing: 【Have you ever thought that maybe you will soon lose your voice and tongue】

Wu Ren: […]

Zhou Qian, who didn't want others to hear a little bit of his thoughts, kept the whole process in his head: [X*%bala...]

Qi Liuxing: [?Who the hell has been chanting? 】

·

The elevator door opened, and the four of them walked into the second floor.

White lights illuminated the hall.

The place is still very empty, only a metal coffin is placed in the middle of the room.

The coffin lids were scattered in the corner next to it, and Situ Qing and Yin Jiujiu were standing nearby with complicated expressions.

Taking a closer look, Zhou Qian found a name engraved on the coffin lid - "Xue Li."

It appears that this is the name of the corpse that was placed in the coffin.

Now the body is not lying in the coffin, she is sitting.

Half of her body was hidden in the coffin, while the other half was exposed.

Strictly speaking, she can't be counted as a corpse, because her eyes are still blinking, so she is obviously alive.

But she can't be counted as a living person at all.

All she could move up and down was probably only her eyes.

This is a highly mutated person, with scale-like flowers growing on his face, except for a pair of eyes, all other facial features have disappeared.

Her exposed upper body becomes a tree.She even lost her original arms, replaced by many branches growing from her trunk-like upper body, with dark and light green leaves growing on them, and occasionally some sharp thorn-like objects can be seen.

If the player didn't know about the mutation in advance, when looking at her from a distance, he would not think that she was a person at all, but would only think that it was a tree-shaped monster, which just grew human eyes.

At this time, the players heard each other's surprise almost at the same time.

[Before, I was in communion with plants and had the memory of plants, that's okay.Animals can barely make do.Are you actually going to communion with a person, or a corpse now... so disgusting]

[It's really disgusting.But in order to complete the task, there is no way]

After a while, the players really encountered the most unacceptable kind of "combination", and then they had the memory of the person named "Xue Li".

The picture is not on the second floor of the tower, but in another space with a sense of technology.

Shirley should be a staff member of the laboratory. For a long time in the picture, she was alone in front of an operating table, typing and recording data.

After a long time, the metal door parted and someone walked in.

Under his arm was something about a person's height, but it was covered by a black cloth, and Shirley didn't know what it was.

Shirley looked at the person, she was surprised at first, and then a little blush appeared on her face. "Mayor Ryan, why are you here? Today is the Strawberry Festival Music Festival, I thought you went to the square halfway up the mountain."

"There is something temporary. Please help me turn on the boiler. I want to destroy something." Ryan said.

Shirley seemed a little surprised by Ryan's request. "Ah? That was the one that used to waste power generation——"

"Just turn it on!" Ryan said seriously.

"I know, I'll go right now."

Ryan has always been amiable, rarely so severe.

Shirley didn't dare to ask any more questions, and after a quick reply, she immediately followed Ryan's instructions and walked to the console to operate.

After a while, the high-power boiler started to run, and the fuel in the furnace burned bright red flames under the strong wind, which stained Ryan's blue eyes.

Soon, Ryan walked to the burning stove with the thing covered by the black cloth, and lifted the black cloth.

Shirley then saw that what he brought over seemed like a mirror.

The mirror was thrown by Ryan and went straight into the furnace, making a "pop" sound.

About 3 minutes later, Shirley, who had been paying attention to Ryan, noticed that his brows were frowning.

She peeked into the furnace again and saw that the mirror was not damaged at all.

it's wired?

How can such a thing happen?

What the hell is that mirror?

Shirley was thinking this, when she suddenly heard Ryan say something very strange——

"I keep your consciousness, personality, and even goodness because I am curious about you. I also want to share the taste of having everything with you. But why do you repay me like this?

"Do you know how hard it took me to collect the raw material and polish it? It's a great work of art!"

"Mayor Ryan, what are you talking about?" Shirley was taken aback and couldn't help but speak.

She felt that Ryan seemed to be a different person suddenly.

But Ryan suddenly turned his head and looked at himself with a smile. "It's okay. Shirley, please turn off the boiler and start the cooling process."

Shirley didn't know why, but she had to follow suit.

After the cooling process was completed and the fuel cooled down completely, Ryan took the mirror out of the huge combustion furnace again.

Shirley somehow felt that there seemed to be a subtle difference in Ryan's eyes and expression.

But suddenly, I saw Ryan's hideous and painful face, and after a while, he returned to normal.

It was as if he had just suddenly lost his temper, and now he was his usual Ryan again.

Later, Shirley saw him walk to a wall, click on an operation panel, and after entering a string of passwords, opened another door.

Shirley was once again extremely surprised by Ryan's actions.She couldn't help but remind her. "Mayor Ryan, there is a reactor over there. Didn't you say that it is too polluting and dangerous, so you decided not to use it?"

"No way, it seems that only by using the energy of the reactor can it be completely destroyed."

After Ryan said something to himself, he walked into the newly opened room, and the metal door closed immediately, and Shirley couldn't see anything.

Shirley saw Ryan coming out again, half an hour later.

Ryan covered himself with the black cloth he originally used to cover the mirror, looking very weird.

What's also strange is his expression and eyes, which are more perverse and inexplicable.

Lane was so weird tonight.

How come several times, I feel that he has become less like himself?

What Ryan said next also seemed very strange to Shirley. "I really didn't expect that you would go so far in order to destroy it... Then start my large-scale experiment in advance. This is what you forced me to do... I can't help it..."

Shirley suddenly found out in horror that there seemed to be a fire coming from the room where the reactor was located.

But before she could see clearly, the metal door closed again.

Xue Li couldn't help reminding again: "Mayor, there must be... a fire?"

"You read it wrong. It's okay." Ryan said, and gave Shirley an inscrutable look, "I'm leaving, I have to go to the Strawberry Music Festival. I promised the children that I will sing a song for them .You continue to stay here. I look forward to seeing you next time."

Shirley blushed again.

It was clear that she had some kind of special affection for Lane.

The mayor said he was looking forward to seeing me next time...

is this real?

Am I right?

"I'm looking forward to it, what will you look like next time I see you?"

After repeating this sentence, Ryan wrapped himself in a black cloth from head to toe, and left.

·

While looking at this memory, Zhou Qian has completely restored the whole truth in his mind.

Sarah used the "mirror of all things" to merge Ryan's body with herself, or to put it another way, she absorbed Ryan.

For the time being, she had no intention of completely erasing Ryan's brain, so she let him live with her.

The situation between the two of them at this time is actually a bit like a split personality-one body has the will of Ryan and Sarah at the same time.

On this day, Ryan took control of his body, and he brought the "Mirror of Everything" here, intending to destroy it.

He did all this, of course, because he wanted to stop Sarah's plot.

Kelian discovered that the huge boiler originally used for power generation could not destroy the mirror of all things.

So he decided to use the reactor.

It is estimated that Sarah regained control of the body when Ryan had put the mirror into the reactor and let it start to work.

At that time, she was powerless to prevent the destruction of the Mirror of All Things.

She could only go along with the flow, deliberately causing the reactor to burn and then explode, turning the mirror of all things into countless fragments, and "infecting" everyone with the explosion and spread of radiation dust.

Since then, a special radiation has swept over every child who participated in the music festival. The thousands of fragments of the "mirror of all things" hidden in it are like the hand that opened Pandora's box, which has completely changed this town ever since.

When Ryan, or Sarah ignited the reactor, she wrapped herself tightly in a black cloth that can isolate radiation. It must be because at that time, even she could not predict that under the influence of the reactor explosion and radiation, the fragments of the mirror would be destroyed. What kind of consequences.

She asked Shirley to stay here.Shirley can become her most intuitive observation object in the future.

This is the whole truth behind the so-called fireworks and the so-called accidental explosion that night at the Strawberry Music Festival.

·

Now that the players can communicate with each other, Zhou Qian doesn't need to retell the story with his mouth, and the others also use him to explain the plot.

Qi Liuxing couldn't help frowning and said: "The 'help' from the plant we heard, shouldn't the source come from Shirley? She, she is so pitiful. She is the one closest to the radiation! Sarah is too It's not a thing anymore!"

Ke Yuxiao also echoed with a serious face: "Indeed. Perhaps Sarah herself didn't fully understand the 'Mirror of Everything'. Her original plan was to conduct experiments step by step.

"Klein's act of destroying the mirror completely broke all of Sarah's plans. In order to prevent the mirror from completely turning into nothingness, in order to continue the experiment and finally achieve the goal of merging everything, she caused an explosion.

"As for the consequences of the explosion, Sarah can't actually predict it. That's why she needs to continue the experiment and observation. We are undoubtedly her guinea pigs."

"Yeah. Agreed."

Zhou Qian opened his mouth, and made some additions to Ke Yuxiao's words: "According to Sarah's original plan and the actual effect of her fusion with Ryan, the effect she hopes to achieve is - to blend with other animals and plants Finally, she can change her genetic code at any time and completely control the changes in her body shape. Just like Monkey King's 72 changes, she can change into anything she wants.

"But Sarah's experiments haven't fully matured yet. She just fused with her younger brother. But their genetic codes are very similar. She hasn't tested it on other plants or animals at all.

"Therefore, the explosion was a last resort for her. She couldn't predict the follow-up result."

"A series of subsequent facts proved that under the action of special radioactive substances, the mirror began to spontaneously fuse everything. But now the problem Sarah faces is that she cannot control all this.

"So under circumstances beyond her control, she can only set up a barrier to temporarily isolate it all.

"In addition, she must find a way to regain control of the mirror of all things, and finally realize her goal of blending with all things and at the same time being able to dominate all things.

"Ke Yuxiao is right. We are her guinea pigs. She needs to observe us, study our data, and finally realize her goal of becoming the master of everything."

[The player collected memory fragments: "Beyond the Accident"]

[Memory fragment progress: 4/4]

[The player has found the secret that Ryan hides here, the mission is 50% complete]

Seeing the news from the system, Zhou Qian knew that they hadn't completed the remaining 50% of the tasks, just because they hadn't collected 24 points yet.

At the same time, Zhou Qian also received another message——

[Player Zhou Qian's side mission "The Secret Behind Ryan", the completion rate is 50%]

·

After obtaining all the memory fragments, the players left the tower and began to walk around the wetland in the direction of the tower to the No. A13 evil spirit removal station.

The four male players replenished enough life points at the evil spirit station A11.

But the two girls couldn't bear it any longer.

When she arrived at station A13, Situ Qing only had 1 point left.

The two girls stayed in the "recharge period" in No. A13, and another accident happened.

——Qi Liuxing and Ke Yuxiao accidentally touched their shoulders, and their arms instantly fused together.

Seeing this situation, Ke Yuxiao couldn't help being serious again: [It seems we have to get out quickly]

Wu Rendao: [Now we four men each have 5 points, which means 20 points.Just now, the two girls recharged for 2 o'clock, Yin Jiujiu for 7 o'clock, and Situ Qing for 3 o'clock.Then we have a total of 30 points.Easy to handle]

[If we want to reduce it to 24 points, we only need to reduce it by 6 points.That's right, less for one person.Let's go to the black grass together, take the time, just go in and out quickly! 】

But Zhou Qian said verbally: "No."

The thoughts of the two girls also merged with everyone at the moment.

The rest of the people were in their minds at the same time: [What's wrong? 】

Zhou Qian said: "First, at the beginning of the game, the system said that the highest point is 24 points. At that time, 1 point was equal to 1 hour. It actually implies that this game may not exceed 24 hours."

"Second, if this kind of thing really happens in the real world, according to the normal experimental logic, a few hours of experimentation is definitely not enough. Sarah will conduct the experiment strictly according to the experimental principle, set up a control group and so on, and then repeatedly deduce ...

"But after all, it is a copy of the game that simplifies the complex settings.

"The plot of the story is generally logical, but there are also many idealized things. For example, when technology has advanced enough to create a 'mirror of all things', will there really be ignorant and backward towns in such a world?"

"Take these two together. I think Sarah's experiment is only this afternoon. We are the guinea pigs for one of her experiments. She won't keep us up. You really think—

"When we gather all 24 points, complete the main task 100%, and Sarah appears here, will she really let us go?

"Maybe, as she promised, let us live in Lihua Town and live a carefree life?"

"Yes, she can't." Ke Yuxiao immediately agreed with Zhou Qian's judgment, "If she can directly fuse all things, she doesn't care. But that accident changed her plan.

"At this stage, she can't directly integrate with everyone, and can't let everyone directly follow her brain to act. In this case, she has to continue to hide the conspiracy."

"Yes. That's it." Zhou Qian said again, "Just now at the top of the tower, we can almost see the whole picture of this level, but we didn't find the buildings where the boilers and reactors are located. This means that the power station has been demolished.

"At the same time, Shirley and the cat were all moved to the two basement floors of that tower to hide, and no one knew about it.

"So, at this stage, Sarah is really afraid that others will know her secret."

"The only ones who know her secret are us. She won't let us have a chance to tell his secret.

"When the experiment this afternoon is over, Sarah will be able to obtain the data she wants. By then we will be useless to her. She will kill us."

Hearing this, Qi Liuxing's heart sank, he frowned and said, "When we get out of this high wall, we will be monsters in the eyes of all the townspeople. Don't forget, they all think it was created by a witch." Yes. We will be regarded by the townspeople as being with the witches. As the mayor of the town, Ryan executes us, which is a logical thing."

"Damn...this broken game..."

Wu Ren couldn't help cursing: "If we don't collect 24 points, we can't wait for Ryan to open the gate. But once he opens the gate, I'm afraid he will kill us again. This...how to do it?"

"There's a cool way to get revenge in this world."

Suddenly, Zhou Qian stood up, smiled and said in a deep tone, "That is when a person devises a routine, you use this routine to deal with him instead."

Ke Yuxiao seemed to have noticed something.

Before he could ask, he had already heard Zhou Qian's thoughts in his mind.

Before Qi Liuxing had time to digest Zhou Qian's fleeting thoughts, he heard Zhou Qian start speaking in a familiar and deceptive tone——

"Sarah raised us here as guinea pigs. Watch us mutate. Then we'll mutate for him.

"Sarah wants to create monsters. Then let's let her be destroyed by the monsters she created."

The familiar enthusiasm caused by Zhou Qian's words came up again, and Qi Liuxing couldn't help standing up immediately.

Holding the summoned long sword in what could barely be called a hand, Qi Liuxing decided to have a big fight with Zhou Qian.

He just suddenly thought of something, and he asked Zhou Qian again: "By the way. Then what happened to your branch line? The four memory fragments of the main line were found, and your branch line has also completed 50%?"

"There are two main quests, the first and 24 points; the second and fourth memories. This is a hidden achievement."

"As for my side mission, I'm afraid it's the ultimate hidden achievement. My side mission is also divided into two parts, the first part is also those four memories. As for the second part..."

At this time, the setting sun appeared in the sky.

Zhou Qian's back was drawn into a long shadow by the red sunset.

He said without looking back, "I've already buried a solution. Just wait and see."

Wu Ren: 【Listen to Zhou Qian...why do you feel that everything is under control?Then I just sit and wait for the customs clearance? 】

Qi Liuxing: [Don't!You must not be happy too early!From what I know of him...he's going to play big!You may not be able to accept it!But...although but...]

[Zhou Qian even laughed at me for my second grade.The method he proposes now is also very secondary! 】

[Wait for the body to mutate and become stronger - deal with Ryan, eliminate the conspiracy - save the world, where did I go wrong? ! 】

Ke Yuxiao: [Cough, in fact, besides thinking about how to mutate and make ourselves stronger, we also have a math problem to consider]

Situ Qing: [If you need manpower for a fight, you can find me, please don't ask me to solve math problems]

Yin Jiujiu: [Look, who has a low IQ? 】

Qi Liuxing: [What math problem? 】

Ke Yuxiao: [It's actually very simple, just pay attention during the process.The six of us may continue to "merge". At that time, the fused players will enter A13 to increase their points, which will increase simultaneously, and go to the black grass area to reduce their points, which will also decrease simultaneously]

Qi Liuxing: [Yes.learn.From an extreme point of view, if the six of us are all integrated into one body, when the time comes to increase or decrease the number of points, it will increase or decrease by 6 points at once. In short, it will all be based on multiples of 6.In that case, if we don’t pay attention, we will never get 6 together]

Ke Yuxiao: [Yes.On the one hand, we are looking for animals and plants that can make us stronger according to the method Zhou Qian said;

Qi Liuxing couldn't help but praise him: "Yu Xiao, you are really reliable!"

Ke Yuxiao smiled faintly at him: "Go, let's act."

Wu Ren silently followed Zhou Qian: [Hiss...]

·

About an hour later.

The players completed their mutations under the direct command of Zhou Qian with his brain power, and the sum of life points reached 24.

At this moment, they were standing beside the black strange grass area.

That's why they lowered their life points in the black grass and gathered 24 points and just walked outside on the main road.

The system sent a message soon.

[The life points of the surviving players add up to 24 points. Mayor Ryan is very satisfied, and the task completion rate is 100%]

Almost at the same moment, there was a noise in the air.

It turned out that several drones flew over.

In an instant, all the cameras on the drone turned to point at the player.

In the strange flowers and grasses, six highly mutated strange people, through the lens of the drone, entered the TVs of the homes of thousands of people in Lihua Town, and were watched by countless people.

A helicopter flew over immediately, and then hovered at a high altitude directly above the players.

Ryan's voice reached the players' ears through the radio, and it also reached the ears of thousands of people—

"I have discovered the root of the evil spirits! The secrets of the witches are hidden in this high wall. These six monsters... were created by the witches. Look how terrifying they are! We must kill them all Just do it!

"Fire can crush all evil spirits. The once beautiful Mount Vail has been corrupted by evil spirits. I have to set fire to the mountain. Let's burn this place, burn the evil spirits to death, and burn the monsters spawned by the evil spirits!"

After Ryan finished speaking, several helicopters flew over and poured barrels of gasoline around the players.

The next thing that came down was fire.

A small box fell from the plane, bounced off automatically after landing, and flames burst out automatically, igniting all the gasoline in an instant, and the player was engulfed in a sea of ​​flames.

Despite making sufficient psychological preparations, the players other than Zhou Qian inevitably fell into panic.

Wu Ren: [Damn it, Xiao Qi is right.Zhou Qian really played too much...I regret it a bit]

Qi Liuxing: [The matter has come to this point, there is no way to go back on it.get on with it!We want to save Lihua Town, and even all mankind! 】

Wu Ren: [Damn it, why should I be in a group with an extreme lunatic and a sophomore boy! 】